TKD and North Korean bodyguards

A buddy of mine is heavily into TKD, first TKDer to ever really want to spar outside of his dojang that I've met and who has some good strong kicks. He showed this to me yesterday, he got the link from one of those online journal places.

North Korean propaganda footage embedded into an English language program?

Anyways, a lot of foreign countries do things like this with their elite troops. Its very rehearsed (the fighting parts). Also, it does not take any skill to stand there and have people smash **** on you and/or hit you.

We were out in Egypt to train some of their SAAKA (lightning) commandos and they also wanted to demonstrate their skills and they put on a multiple opponent fight sequence. It was great, just like an old Jackie Chan flick. Very, very rehearsed. The blocks were there before the attacks came. It was a good show though. Enough about that.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill

Aw, you beat me to it. That's some funny stuff, but in a world that doesn't know why we have seasons and thinks the movie S.W.A.T. was realistic why not put this stuff out?

The Soviets had something similar, they used to call them something similar to Hollywood companies. All they would do is pump iron, practice crazy acrobatic stuff, and let stuff get smashed off of them.

Breaking **** over oneself sometimes isn't that easy. I've done that stick breaking thing on my instructor and he was left with welts and popped vessels. Does it hurt? Yes. Does it have anythign to do with fighting? Eh not really. Does it look cool and do the laymen go nuts over it? hell yea